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Grape - St. Croixâ„¢
Grape - St. Croixâ„¢ The St. Croix Grape, Vitis 'St. Croix', is a sweet grape suitable for wine making. Medium to large dark blue berries are produced in medium-sized bunches on highly productive vines. Ripening in late August, it has excellent winter hardiness and disease resistant. It’s relatively easy to make good quality wine from this grape. It resists powdery mildew and black rot. St. Croix is a vigorous grower, hardy to about –25F, but its roots are a bit less hardy, unless there is snow cover. This grape tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, but must have good drainage. Grapes are primarily grown for fruit production in home fruitg ardens where they provide good ornamental value: bold summer foliage, showy fruit, some fall color and shaggy, twisted trunking and branching often best seen in winter. Grapes need a good support system like fences, walls, trellises, arbors or other structures. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home. Grapes need full sunlight and high temperatures to ripen, so plant on southern slopes, the south side of windbreaks, or the south sides of buildings. Considered to be a good grape for juices and jellies. Birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share.
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| Grape - Reliance Seedless - Sale Price: $49.95 The Reliance Grape, 'Vitis 'Reliance', is a red medium-sized, seedless table grape with high dessert quality. It is well suited for fresh eating, or can be used for juice. Reliance requires annual pruning, adequate fertilization and maximum sunlight, and it ripens early September. Reliance grapes have a wide array of colors which they pass through before becoming a beautiful purple color, at which they are ready to eat. Color varies from red to a rather light pink, depending on climate, and it may be edible even when it shows almost no color at all. Will crack if weather is rainy during ripening time. Reliance has one of the better vines, and it is easy to train to cordons with spurs. This grape is one of the best tasting, red seedless table grape. Grapes are primarily grown for fruit production in home fruit gardens where they provide good ornamental value: bold summer foliage, showy fruit, some fall color and shaggy, twisted trunking and branching often best seen in winter. Grapes need a good support system like fences, walls, trellises, arbors or other structures. The grape vines can be quite attractive year-round and can provide good cover, screening, or shade to areas around the home. Grapes need full sunlight and high temperatures to ripen, so plant on southern slopes, the south side of windbreaks, or the south sides of buildings. Considered to be a good grape for juices and jellies. Birds love grapes, so be sure to plant some to share. |
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| Blackberry - Triple Crown Thornless - Sale Price: $39.95 Thornless Blackberry 'Triple Crown', Rubus x 'Triple Crown', is the newest thornless blackberry. Triple Crown Blackberry is named for its three crowning attributes: delicious flavor, large productivity ,and outstanding vigor The Triple Crown Blackberry ripens from mid July until mid August. This blackberry variety yields large, glossy black fruits that are pleasantly firm. Tolerant of a wide range of soils, Triple Crown will do best in well drained, humus enriched soils. Plant this blackberry as soon as the soil has warmed and trim canes to encourage new growth. Plants should be set out at least 2 feet apart in rows 7 feet apart. Lovely clusters of white, 5-petaled, rose-like flowers bloom in the spring. Then they give way to firm, glossy blackberries of excellent eating quality that mature in summer; begins bearing fruit in 2 years. This is a self-fruitful, free-standing, thornless shrub that produces one crop of fruit per year. Immediately after fruit harvest, remove all canes that fruited to the ground. In late winter to early spring, remove any canes damaged by winter. Plants generally perform best when staked; can be trellised or grown upright and pruned to a height of about 42 inches. |
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